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studionone/shale
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A PHP schema system for (de)serializing JSON and other transports

2.1.1(4y ago)01563MITPHPPHP >=8.0

Since Apr 1Pushed 4y ago4 watchersCompare

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Shale
=====

[](#shale)

A PHP schema system for (de)serializing JSON and other transports

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 7.0+
- Doctrine's Annotations system

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer require studionone/shale

```

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 67.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~175 days

Recently: every ~58 days

Total

13

Last Release

1592d ago

Major Versions

0.2.8 → 1.0.02021-05-17

1.0.0 → 2.0.02021-08-12

2.1.1 → 8.0.x-dev2022-01-04

PHP version history (4 changes)0.1.0PHP >=7.0.0

1.0.0PHP >=7.3.0

2.0.0PHP >=8.0.0

2.1.0PHP >=8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/54760acfe3bc335c8beb4ea403dfb3bbbc6fbad457eb00569b8bf91b65ad4175?d=identicon)[ncraike](/maintainers/ncraike)

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Top Contributors

[![andrewstudionone](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23020452?v=4)](https://github.com/andrewstudionone "andrewstudionone (25 commits)")[![skeetbooth](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4134163?v=4)](https://github.com/skeetbooth "skeetbooth (7 commits)")[![jrussnone](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46660654?v=4)](https://github.com/jrussnone "jrussnone (3 commits)")[![girvo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1305443?v=4)](https://github.com/girvo "girvo (2 commits)")

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Tags

jsonserialization

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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